State v. Lloyd
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The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals upholding Defendant's conviction of felony murder for a one-punch homicide, holding that Defendant failed to establish that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance.
Defendant killed an eighty-three-year-old man by punching him in the face, causing the victim to crash to the ground and strike his head on the concrete. After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of felony murder and felonious assault. On appeal, Defendant argued that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to request jury instructions on lesser-included and inferior-degree offenses. The Supreme Court disagreed and affirmed, holding that Defendant failed to demonstrate that his counsel misunderstood the law or that he would have been entitled to additional jury instructions had his attorney requested them.
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